Defending People

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This Is What They Teach at Georgetown?

Mark Bennett | January 10, 2009

Austin criminal defense lawyer Dax Garvin laments in a comment to my Advice to a Young Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer post, “I just wish more cases would go to trial… it seems most clients justdon’t want to take the risk, and I fully understand and respect that.”
Miami criminal defense lawyer Brian Tannebaum, fresh out of [...]

Mock Trial and Real Trial

Mark Bennett | January 9, 2009

I wrote here that
“Mock trial” is to trial as ballroom dancing is to gladiatorial combat
(which inspired my choice of Pollice Verso as the art for this blog).
Dallas criminal defense lawyer Robert Guest has found another metaphor, which he applies to pro se litigation, but which I shall misappropriate in a moment:
The problem: proceeding [...]

The Coronation Poll

Mark Bennett | December 27, 2008

For those Harris County ADAs who want, very anonymously, to express their feelings about being ordered to Pat Lykos’s coronation ceremony on January 1, Miami criminal defense lawyer Brian Tannebaum has posted a poll.